Larissa Shmailo

Larissa Shmailo is a poet, novelist, translator, writing coach, editor, and critic.  She is the author of two novels and six collections of poetry, including Dora / Lora (Unlikely Books). Shmailo’s poetry album Exorcism won the New Century Best Spoken Word Album awardtracks are available from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and most digital distributors. Shmailo’s work has appeared in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Penguin Random House), Words for the Wedding (Penguin), Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey), Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket) and many others. Shmailo is the original English-language translator of the first Futurist opera Victory over the Sun performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Garage Museum of Moscow, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and theaters and universities worldwide. Shmailo also edited the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry (Big Bridge Press). Shmailo facilitates the workshops Formal Poetry and Writing Resilience. Shmailo’s mission in life is to help mentally ill people through writing. Please see more about Shmailo at her websites www.writingwithLarissa.com,  www.larissashmailo.com or at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa_Shmailo

2018 Events
Unlikely Stories 20th Anniversary Reading
2019 Events
Unlikely Books Reading